groupthink
noun
group·think
ˈgrüp-ˌthiŋk 
: a pattern of thought characterized by self-deception, forced manufacture of consent, and conformity to group values and ethics
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The Fed's current governance has facilitated groupthink that has led to significant monetary-policy errors.
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Adeola Adeosun
robert Birsel, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
The Monoculture Problem Just as agricultural monocultures make ecosystems vulnerable to disease, cognitive monocultures make human societies vulnerable to manipulation and groupthink.
—Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
That would leave less room for new filmic voices and engender frictionless pushback against the kind of corporate groupthink responsible for the boring sameness behind our current multiplex malaise.
—Josef Adalian, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025
In his view, the expanding ubiquity of predictive AI models is squeezing our culture into a kind of groupthink, in which all our idiosyncrasies slowly but surely become discounted as irrelevant outliers in the data of humanity.
—Webb Wright, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2025
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Adeola Adeosun
robert Birsel, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
The Monoculture Problem Just as agricultural monocultures make ecosystems vulnerable to disease, cognitive monocultures make human societies vulnerable to manipulation and groupthink.
—Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
That would leave less room for new filmic voices and engender frictionless pushback against the kind of corporate groupthink responsible for the boring sameness behind our current multiplex malaise.
—Josef Adalian, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025
In his view, the expanding ubiquity of predictive AI models is squeezing our culture into a kind of groupthink, in which all our idiosyncrasies slowly but surely become discounted as irrelevant outliers in the data of humanity.
—Webb Wright, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2025
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“Groupthink.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/groupthink. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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